May 5, 2016 0 Feathers, Lead, and Gold The age-old riddle is simple: which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead? Your instnict may be [...]
May 4, 2016 0 An Unreal Art Caper The painting pictured above, as descrbied on Wikipedia, is a self-portrait of and by a 19th century Spanish [...]
May 3, 2016 0 The Stapler The 1999 movie Office Space is a cult classic which, if you haven’t seen, is something you really need to [...]
May 2, 2016 0 Pass Out the Vote Edward Jerningham Wakefield, pictured above, was born in London in June of 1820 and was an early [...]
April 28, 2016 0 The Red Menace In World War II, China and the United States were ostensibly on the same side, united via their common [...]
April 27, 2016 0 The Case of George Washington versus Pinocchio Once upon a time, someone came up with the idea of a fable — a fictional story which aims to teach the [...]
April 26, 2016 0 The Unforgiving Tyranny of the Red Pen In middle school, my classmates and I were given a new responsibility — we were asked to grade each [...]
April 25, 2016 0 Postal Puzzles In the English county of Buckinghamshire lives a graphic designer named James Addison. In 2009, Addison [...]
April 22, 2016 0 The Weekender: April 22, 2016 1) “The Asteroid Hunters” (Popular Mechanics, 55 minutes, November 2015). The subhead: [...]
April 21, 2016 0 A Weighty Issue Imagine you have in front of you an important document — something that you need someone to not only [...]